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The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future

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  • © 1994

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  1. Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

    1. The Hague, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Environment & Policy (ENPO, volume 1)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Long-term environmental policy: towards a sustainable future

      • Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy
      Pages 2-18

  3. Signs of Hope

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Signs of hope for the 21st century?

      • Ernst U. von Weizsäcker, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek
      Pages 20-45

  4. The Transformation to a Sustainable Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Socialization of environmental policy objectives: tools for environmental marketing

      • Peter Ester, Tjitse Mandemaker
      Pages 48-83

    3. Management of environmental policy networks

      • Hans de Bruijn, Ernst ten Heuvelhof
      Pages 84-111

    4. The science/public-policy dialogue on long-term environmental planning

      • Jacques Geurts, Johanna Kasperkovitz
      Pages 112-144

  5. Internationalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The environment as a security issue

      • Renat Perelet
      Pages 146-173

    3. Sustainability — a new challenge for Japan?

      • Eric-Jan Tuininga
      Pages 174-202

    4. International decision-making on sustainability

      • Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy
      Pages 204-217

    5. International views on long-term environmental policy

      • Gerrit H. Vonkeman, Peter Maxson
      Pages 218-249

  6. Philosophical and Methodological Considerations on Planning the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
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    2. Environmental policy in transformation: a philosophical approach

      • Petran Kockelkoren, Wouter Achterberg, Hans Achterhuis, Ko van der Wal
      Pages 252-275

    3. Trends and discontinuities: their relevance for sustainable development strategies

      • Bert de Vries
      Pages 276-313

  7. Contours of a Sustainable Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 315-315
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    2. An ecologically sustainable biosphere

      • Pier Vellinga, Rudolf de Groot, Richard Klein
      Pages 316-348

    3. Decrease of population growth: a condition for a sustainable future

      • Jeroen van Ginneken, Albertine van Diepen
      Pages 350-371
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About this book

A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed? In this book, the Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy, an expert advisory board to the Dutch Minister of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, shows possible ways in which society can move towards a sustainable future.
The book goes in search of a new social order, an order in which sustainability is guaranteed. This search holds four main elements:
  • signs of hope: which positive initiatives and developments exist which will lead to a sustainable future?
  • transformations: which transformations are needed to reach a sustainable future?
  • philosophical and methodological reflections: can one predict the future?
  • institutions: what are the necessary changes in the basic institutions of society to reach a sustainable future?

The committee has invited well-known experts from different disciplinary backgrounds to check the existing social order from a point of sustainability and to give recommendations for a sustainable future. The central conclusion is that we are in need of an evolving green strategy aimed at sustainability. The contours of this strategy are described and a large set of recommendations to reach a sustainable future are given. As the committee states: `There is no certainty and no statistical probability for a sustainable future, but there is at least a chance.'

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Hague, The Netherlands

    Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future

  • Editors: Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy

  • Series Title: Environment & Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0808-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2655-7Due: 30 November 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2656-4Published: 30 November 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0808-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1383-5130

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0110

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 608

  • Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Environmental Management

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